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Red Annihilation was a Quake
Quake

Quake is a first-person shooter computer game that was released by id Software on June 22, 1996. It was the first game in the popular Quake of computer and video games....
 competitive eSport event, sponsored by Microsoft
Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of computer software products for computing devices....
, held in May 1997. The winner, Thresh
Dennis Fong

Dennis "Thresh" Fong is an entrepreneur and retired celebrity pro gamer. Fong has been called "the Michael Jordan of video games", a "Top 20 Entrepreneur Under 35" by Red Herring magazine, and voted as the "Top North American E-Sports Figure of All Time" by the E-Sports Entertainment Association, is best known for co-founding Xfire, an ins...
, took home John Carmack's 1987 Ferrari 328 GTS cabriolet as the offered prize.

The tournament was created by Michael "Hawthorne" Shearon as the Kings of Capture Quake Tournament. Intergraph
Intergraph

Intergraph Corporation is a software company with 3879 employees worldwide . Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, Intergraph has industrial, government, and military customers in more than 60 countries....
 became the main sponsor of the tournament and brought in id Software
Id Software

id Software is an American video game developer from Mesquite, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: game programmer John D....
 to help give the event a boost.






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Red Annihilation was a Quake
Quake

Quake is a first-person shooter computer game that was released by id Software on June 22, 1996. It was the first game in the popular Quake of computer and video games....
 competitive eSport event, sponsored by Microsoft
Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of computer software products for computing devices....
, held in May 1997. The winner, Thresh
Dennis Fong

Dennis "Thresh" Fong is an entrepreneur and retired celebrity pro gamer. Fong has been called "the Michael Jordan of video games", a "Top 20 Entrepreneur Under 35" by Red Herring magazine, and voted as the "Top North American E-Sports Figure of All Time" by the E-Sports Entertainment Association, is best known for co-founding Xfire, an ins...
, took home John Carmack's 1987 Ferrari 328 GTS cabriolet as the offered prize.

The tournament was created by Michael "Hawthorne" Shearon as the Kings of Capture Quake Tournament. Intergraph
Intergraph

Intergraph Corporation is a software company with 3879 employees worldwide . Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, Intergraph has industrial, government, and military customers in more than 60 countries....
 became the main sponsor of the tournament and brought in id Software
Id Software

id Software is an American video game developer from Mesquite, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: game programmer John D....
 to help give the event a boost. The event was changed given a new name and a bigger venue.

At this time Hawthorne brought the Tournament to Will Bryant and Clan Ring to help administer the event whilst also adding Mpath Interactive and Cox Broadcasting to the sponsors list.

The tournament was held on Mpaths networks with over 2000 participants with the top 16 being flown to Atlanta Georgia for the final tournament to be held at the World Congress Center during E3.